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  - mm/secretmem: fix panic when growing a memfd_secret When one tries to grow an existing memfd_secret with     ftruncate, one gets a panic [1]. For example, doing the following reliably induces the panic: fd =     memfd_secret(); ftruncate(fd, 10); ptr = mmap(NULL, 10, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
    strcpy(ptr, 123456789); munmap(ptr, 10); ftruncate(fd, 20); The basic reason for this is, when we grow     with ftruncate, we call down into simple_setattr, and then truncate_inode_pages_range, and eventually we     try to zero part of the memory. The normal truncation code does this via the direct map (i.e., it calls     page_address() and hands that to memset()). For memfd_secret though, we specifically don't map our pages     via the direct map (i.e. we call set_direct_map_invalid_noflush() on every fault). So the address returned     by page_address() isn't useful, and when we try to memset() with it we panic. This patch avoids the panic     by implementing a custom setattr for memfd_secret, which detects resizes specifically (setting the size     for the first time works just fine, since there are no existing pages to try to zero), and rejects them     with EINVAL. One could argue growing should be supported, but I think that will require a significantly     more lengthy change. So, I propose a minimal fix for the benefit of stable kernels, and then perhaps to     extend memfd_secret to support growing in a separate patch. [1]: BUG: unable to handle page fault for     address: ffffa0a889277028 #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-     present page PGD afa01067 P4D afa01067 PUD 83f909067 PMD 83f8bf067 PTE 800ffffef6d88060 Oops: 0002 [#1]     PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC PTI CPU: 0 PID: 281 Comm: repro Not tainted 5.17.0-dbg-DEV #1 Hardware name:
    QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:memset_erms+0x9/0x10 Code: c1     e9 03 40 0f b6 f6 48 b8 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 48 0f af c6 f3 48 ab 89 d1 f3 aa 4c 89 c8 c3 90 49 89 f9     40 88 f0 48 89 d1 <f3> aa 4c 89 c8 c3 90 49 89 fa 40 0f b6 ce 48 b8 01 01 01 01 01 01 RSP:
    0018:ffffb932c09afbf0 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffda63c4249dc0 RCX: 0000000000000fd8     RDX: 0000000000000fd8 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffa0a889277028 RBP: ffffb932c09afc00 R08:
    0000000000001000 R09: ffffa0a889277028 R10: 0000000000020023 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffda63c4249dc0     R13: ffffa0a890d70d98 R14: 0000000000000028 R15: 0000000000000fd8 FS: 00007f7294899580(0000)     GS:ffffa0af9bc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2:
    ffffa0a889277028 CR3: 0000000107ef6006 CR4: 0000000000370ef0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000     DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: ?     zero_user_segments+0x82/0x190 truncate_inode_partial_folio+0xd4/0x2a0     truncate_inode_pages_range+0x380/0x830 truncate_setsize+0x63/0x80 simple_setattr+0x37/0x60     notify_change+0x3d8/0x4d0 do_sys_ftruncate+0x162/0x1d0 __x64_sys_ftruncate+0x1c/0x20     do_syscall_64+0x44/0xa0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae Modules linked in: xhci_pci xhci_hcd     virtio_net net_failover failover virtio_blk virtio_balloon uhci_hcd ohci_pci ohci_hcd evdev ehci_pci     ehci_hcd 9pnet_virtio 9p netfs 9pnet CR2: ffffa0a889277028 [lkp@intel.com: secretmem_iops can be static]     [axelrasmussen@google.com: return EINVAL] (CVE-2022-49049)

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